2014 North Down and Ards District Council election
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![]() Ards and North Down 2014 Council Election Results by DEA (Shaded by plurality of FPVs) |
The first election to North Down and Ards District Council (now Ards and North Down Borough Council), part of the Northern Ireland local elections on 22 May 2014, returned 40 members to the newly formed council via Single Transferable Vote.[1][2] The Democratic Unionist Party won a plurality of first-preference votes and seats.
Election results
[edit]Party | Seats | First Pref. votes | FPv% | |
---|---|---|---|---|
DUP | 17 | 16,460 | 35.93 | |
UUP | 9 | 8,092 | 17.66 | |
Alliance | 7 | 6,243 | 13.63 | |
Green (NI) | 3 | 2,023 | 4.42 | |
Independent | 2 | 4,505 | 9.83 | |
TUV | 1 | 2,252 | 4.92 | |
SDLP | 1 | 1,695 | 3.70 | |
NI Conservatives | 0 | 1,554 | 3.77 | |
NI21 | 0 | 1,441 | 3.49 | |
UKIP | 0 | 1,180 | 2.86 | |
Sinn Féin | 0 | 388 | 0.94 | |
Community Partnership | 0 | 388 | 0.94 | |
Totals | 40 | 41,270 | 100.00 |
Districts summary
[edit]Ward | % | Cllrs | % | Cllrs | % | Cllrs | % | Cllrs | % | Cllrs | % | Cllrs | % | Cllrs | Total Cllrs |
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DUP | UUP | Alliance | Green | TUV | SDLP | Others | |||||||||
Ards Peninsula | 47.1 | 3 | 16.6 | 1 | 8.1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 19.1 | 1 | 9.1 | 0 | 6 |
Bangor Central | 28.0 | 2 | 15.7 | 2 | 12.8 | 1 | 7.6 | 1 | 4.6 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 31.3 | 0 | 6 |
Bangor East and Donaghadee | 32.4 | 3 | 18.9 | 1 | 9.8 | 1 | 3.9 | 0 | 5.3 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 29.7 | 1 | 6 |
Bangor West | 31.9 | 2 | 16.2 | 1 | 17.3 | 1 | 6.4 | 1 | 9.1 | 0 | 4.9 | 0 | 14.2 | 0 | 5 |
Comber | 39.2 | 2 | 22.1 | 1 | 13.2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 9.3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 16.2 | 0 | 5 |
Holywood and Clandeboye | 31.9 | 2 | 17.8 | 1 | 22.2 | 1 | 14.9 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 5.0 | 0 | 8.2 | 0 | 5 |
Newtownards | 35.7 | 3 | 15.2 | 2 | 12.7 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 6.4 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 30.0 | 1 | 7 |
Total | 35.4 | 17 | 17.4 | 9 | 13.4 | 7 | 4.4 | 3 | 4.8 | 1 | 4.2 | 1 | 20.4 | 2 | 40 |
District results
[edit]Ards Peninsula
[edit]2014: 3 x DUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Alliance
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
DUP | Robert Adair* | 24.48% | 1,773 | ||||||||
SDLP | Joe Boyle* | 19.15% | 1,387 | ||||||||
UUP | Angus Carson* | 16.55% | 1,199 | ||||||||
DUP | Nigel Edmund | 8.57% | 621 | 1,159.79 | |||||||
Alliance | Kellie Armstrong* † | 6.06% | 439 | 457.49 | 605.69 | 619.46 | 620.56 | 650.47 | 862 | 1,074 | |
DUP | Eddie Thompson* | 7.25% | 456 | 535.12 | 539.02 | 604.98 | 697.88 | 712.11 | 788.67 | 800 | |
DUP | Louise Wallace | 7.72% | 559 | 616.19 | 618.29 | 653.99 | 669.89 | 678.18 | 701.41 | 703.31 | |
Sinn Féin | Sheila Bailie | 5.36% | 388 | 390.58 | 535.48 | 535.82 | 535.92 | 538.82 | 557.69 | ||
NI Conservatives | Paul Leeman | 2.22% | 161 | 180.35 | 185.75 | 215.67 | 220.17 | 246.71 | |||
Alliance | Colin McCormick | 2.02% | 146 | 150.73 | 190.33 | 200.02 | 200.72 | 220.09 | |||
NI21 | John Bustard | 1.57% | 114 | 117.87 | 125.07 | 131.7 | 132.1 | ||||
Electorate: 16,656 Valid: 7,243 (43.49%) Spoilt: 126 Quota: 1,035 Turnout: 7,369 (44.24%) |
Bangor Central
[edit]2014: 2 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x Green
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | ||||
DUP | Wesley Irvine* | 9.81% | 643 | 650 | 651 | 746 | 776 | 791 | 837 | 841 | 878 | 956 | ||||
Alliance | Stuart Anderson † | 6.76% | 443 | 454 | 478 | 482 | 485 | 509 | 510 | 831 | 875 | 892 | 892 | 990 | ||
Green (NI) | Noelle Robinson ‡ | 7.57% | 496 | 513 | 556 | 559 | 569 | 594 | 599 | 648 | 694 | 743 | 743.26 | 957.26 | ||
UUP | Ian Henry* | 8.98% | 589 | 603 | 611 | 619 | 635 | 657 | 741 | 747 | 848 | 932 | 934.08 | 956.08 | ||
UUP | Carl McClean | 6.74% | 442 | 470 | 477 | 487 | 500 | 517 | 545 | 551 | 607 | 692 | 693.56 | 789.56 | 809.56 | |
DUP | Alistair Cathcart* | 8.45% | 554 | 556 | 560 | 584 | 589 | 606 | 642 | 643 | 664 | 721 | 725.16 | 754.16 | 757.16 | |
DUP | Roberta Dunlop* | 6.62% | 434 | 440 | 443 | 477 | 495 | 515 | 543 | 548 | 612 | 656 | 665.36 | 705.36 | 710.36 | |
Independent | Mary Macartney | 6.79% | 445 | 455 | 465 | 470 | 486 | 512 | 515 | 537 | 619 | 664 | 665.04 | |||
UKIP | William Montgomery* | 5.87% | 385 | 400 | 408 | 412 | 434 | 450 | 561 | 565 | 591 | |||||
Independent | David Chambers | 5.90% | 387 | 406 | 411 | 420 | 429 | 501 | 508 | 525 | ||||||
Alliance | Nicholas Fell | 6.03% | 395 | 399 | 433 | 435 | 436 | 449 | 451 | |||||||
TUV | William Cudworth | 4.58% | 300 | 304 | 305 | 308 | 360 | 369 | ||||||||
Independent | Colin Breen | 4.18% | 274 | 281 | 293 | 295 | 301 | |||||||||
Community Partnership | Mark Gordon | 3.39% | 222 | 224 | 229 | 230 | ||||||||||
DUP | Adam Harbinson* | 3.10% | 203 | 209 | 212 | |||||||||||
NI21 | Peter Floyd | 2.65% | 174 | 178 | ||||||||||||
NI Conservatives | David Symington | 2.59% | 170 | |||||||||||||
Electorate: 17,194 Valid: 6,556 (38.13%) Spoilt: 122 Quota: 937 Turnout: 6,678 (38.84%) |
Bangor East and Donaghadee
[edit]2014: 3 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x Independent
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | ||||
Independent | Alan Chambers* ‡† | 19.15% | 1,311 | |||||||||||
UUP | Mark Brooks | 15.65% | 1,071 | |||||||||||
Alliance | Gavin Walker | 9.82% | 672 | 724.92 | 731.58 | 804.68 | 839.66 | 1,001.66 | ||||||
DUP | Peter Martin* | 9.13% | 625 | 662.8 | 664.6 | 671.44 | 685.58 | 691.51 | 691.51 | 726.28 | 782.4 | 1,083.4 | ||
DUP | Bill Keery* | 8.15% | 558 | 594.68 | 600.98 | 607.98 | 619.31 | 627.71 | 627.71 | 653.88 | 755.77 | 905.81 | 945.33 | |
DUP | Tom Smith* | 7.90% | 541 | 556.96 | 572.17 | 575.73 | 590.41 | 597.51 | 597.51 | 640.36 | 680.13 | 737.56 | 801.78 | |
UKIP | Patrick Toms | 5.38% | 368 | 383.4 | 385.65 | 394.02 | 411.31 | 426.29 | 427.29 | 566.11 | 636.84 | 658.93 | 660.07 | |
DUP | Terence Malcolm* | 7.19% | 492 | 516.08 | 517.61 | 522.89 | 531.26 | 539 | 539 | 563.37 | 614 | |||
UUP | Christopher Eisenstadt | 3.27% | 224 | 285.6 | 333.3 | 349.51 | 390.3 | 424.77 | 425.77 | 507.38 | ||||
TUV | Joseph Strutt | 5.29% | 362 | 379.92 | 382.98 | 387.54 | 404.54 | 411.4 | 411.4 | |||||
Green (NI) | Trana Gray | 3.87% | 265 | 288.52 | 291.4 | 330.08 | 347.59 | |||||||
NI Conservatives | Brian McBride | 2.56% | 175 | 204.96 | 208.83 | 218.39 | ||||||||
NI21 | William McKee | 2.64% | 181 | 192.48 | 192.93 | |||||||||
Electorate: 16,956 Valid: 6,845 (40.37%) Spoilt: 70 Quota: 978 Turnout: 6,915 (40.78%) |
Bangor West
[edit]2014: 2 x DUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x UUP, 1 x Green
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | ||||
UUP | Marion Smith* | 16.15% | 870 | 887 | 890 | 950 | |||||||
DUP | Alan Graham* | 16.08% | 866 | 889 | 891 | 932 | |||||||
DUP | Alan Leslie* † | 15.80% | 851 | 881 | 883 | 895 | 912 | ||||||
Alliance | Scott Wilson | 11.49% | 619 | 622 | 686 | 701 | 709 | 713 | 713 | 807 | 1,102 | ||
Green (NI) | Paul Roberts ††† | 6.42% | 346 | 359 | 426 | 449 | 453 | 456 | 456 | 562 | 664 | 830 | |
TUV | Robert Gordon | 9.12% | 491 | 520 | 521 | 568 | 573 | 580 | 586 | 634 | 646 | 657 | |
Alliance | Laurence Thompson* | 5.85% | 315 | 319 | 403 | 422 | 425 | 425 | 425 | 506 | |||
NI21 | Steven Denny | 6.37% | 344 | 354 | 382 | 412 | 415 | 419 | 420 | ||||
NI Conservatives | Mark Brotherston | 4.72% | 254 | 272 | 277 | ||||||||
SDLP | Ingrid Logan | 4.91% | 264 | 268 | |||||||||
Community Partnership | Alison Blayney | 3.08% | 166 | ||||||||||
Electorate: 13,479 Valid: 5,386 (39.96%) Spoilt: 62 Quota: 898 Turnout: 5,448 (40.42%) |
Comber
[edit]2014: 2 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x TUV
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
DUP | Robert Gibson* | 17.29% | 1,071 | |||||||
UUP | James Fletcher* | 13.93% | 863 | 878 | 880.61 | 974.67 | 1,037.67 | |||
Alliance | Deborah Girvan* | 13.16% | 815 | 880 | 880.3 | 980.39 | 1,016.48 | 1,121.48 | ||
DUP | Trevor Cummings* | 11.54% | 715 | 724 | 733.39 | 771.63 | 838.93 | 960.93 | 975.93 | |
TUV | Stephen Cooper | 9.32% | 577 | 585 | 585.78 | 639.87 | 750.08 | 908.23 | 920.23 | |
DUP | John Oswald* | 10.33% | 640 | 648 | 663.36 | 676.63 | 742.14 | 867.38 | 879.38 | |
UUP | Philip Smith* | 8.17% | 506 | 526 | 526.42 | 588.48 | 661.6 | |||
UKIP | Isabella Hanna | 6.89% | 427 | 439 | 440.65 | 477.71 | ||||
NI Conservatives | John Andrews | 6.64% | 411 | 425 | 425.93 | |||||
NI21 | Margaret Howson | 2.73% | 169 | |||||||
Electorate: 13,681 Valid: 6,194 (45.27%) Spoilt: 78 Quota: 1,033 Turnout: 6,272 (45.84%) |
Holywood and Clandeboye
[edit]2014: 2 x DUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x UUP, 1 x Green
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
DUP | Stephen Dunne* | 23.12% | 1,423 | |||||||
Alliance | Andrew Muir* | 14.79% | 910 | 922.88 | 983.16 | 1,013.44 | 1,154.44 | |||
Green (NI) | John Barry* † | 14.88% | 916 | 933.92 | 988.76 | 1,024.04 | 1,098.04 | |||
UUP | Daniel Allen ‡‡ | 10.06% | 619 | 647.28 | 672.56 | 728.12 | 735.12 | 735.12 | 1,098.12 | |
DUP | Jennifer Gilmour* † | 8.77% | 540 | 837.64 | 855.92 | 882.60 | 886.16 | 886.16 | 954.96 | |
Alliance | Kate Nicholl | 7.41% | 456 | 460.48 | 485.04 | 518.32 | 586.16 | 710.16 | 759.4 | |
UUP | James McKerrow* | 7.72% | 475 | 491.52 | 508.80 | 558.80 | 562.64 | 564.64 | ||
SDLP | Peter Lismore | 5.00% | 308 | 311.36 | 319.64 | 326.64 | ||||
NI Conservatives | William O'Callaghan | 4.31% | 265 | 268.08 | 280.08 | |||||
NI21 | Matthew Johnston | 3.38% | 208 | 210.8 | ||||||
Independent | Gerard Leddy | 0.55% | 34 | 34.28 | ||||||
Electorate: 14,158 Valid: 6,154 (43.47%) Spoilt: 75 Quota: 1,026 Turnout: 6,229 (44.00%) |
Newtownards
[edit]2014: 3 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x Independent
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ||||
Independent | James Menagh* | 18.06% | 1,464 | |||||||||
DUP | Naomi Armstrong* | 12.94% | 1,049 | |||||||||
DUP | Stephen McIlveen* | 10.23% | 829 | 900.4 | 907.75 | 910.3 | 931.46 | 946.89 | 1,016.34 | |||
DUP | Colin Kennedy* | 6.82% | 553 | 585.2 | 591.2 | 593.6 | 607.35 | 618.73 | 665.55 | 1,030.55 | ||
Alliance | Alan McDowell* | 6.64% | 538 | 554.8 | 567.15 | 567.42 | 578.82 | 631.22 | 653.02 | 659.17 | 1,074.17 | |
UUP | Richard Smart | 7.88% | 639 | 683.1 | 705.8 | 706.25 | 725.35 | 751.1 | 807.56 | 836.74 | 864.79 | |
UUP | Katherine Ferguson | 7.34% | 595 | 631.05 | 659.10 | 660.24 | 681.12 | 714.9 | 759.1 | 811.18 | 855.85 | |
TUV | David McMullen | 6.44% | 522 | 559.8 | 570.5 | 570.95 | 586.4 | 602.48 | 647.68 | 679.45 | 689.53 | |
Alliance | Linda Cleland* | 6.11% | 495 | 512.85 | 515.85 | 516.51 | 530.96 | 588.66 | 623.36 | 634.13 | ||
DUP | John Elliott* | 5.72% | 464 | 508.45 | 512.45 | 534.26 | 555.77 | 565.56 | 611.51 | |||
Independent | Ian Cox | 4.74% | 384 | 470.45 | 471.45 | 472.11 | 542.34 | 559.39 | ||||
NI21 | Nichola Keenan | 3.10% | 251 | 263.25 | 274.25 | 274.49 | 288.19 | |||||
Independent | Sharon Hunt | 2.54% | 206 | 250.8 | 253.8 | 254.01 | ||||||
NI Conservatives | William McKendry | 1.46% | 118 | 121.85 | ||||||||
Electorate: 19,953 Valid: 8,107 (40.63%) Spoilt: 143 Quota: 1,014 Turnout: 8,250 (41.35%) |
* Incumbent
Changes during the term
[edit]† Co-options
[edit]Co-option date | Electoral Area | Party | Outgoing | Co-optee | Reason | |
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19 May 2016 | Bangor East and Donaghadee | UUP | Alan Chambers | David Chambers[4] | A. Chambers was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly.[5] | |
1 Jun 2016 | Ards Peninsula | Alliance | Kellie Armstrong | Lorna McAlpine[6] | Armstrong was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly. | |
7 Jul 2016 | Bangor Central | Alliance | Stuart Anderson | Karen Douglas[7] | Anderson resigned.[8] | |
24 Oct 2016 | Bangor West | Green (NI) | Paul Roberts | Rachel Woods[9] | ||
28 Feb 2018 | Bangor West | DUP | Alan Leslie | Jennifer Gilmour[10] | ||
15 Mar 2018 | Bangor West | Green (NI) | Rachel Woods | James Hunter | Woods moved to the Holywood and Clandeboye DEA.[11][12] | |
15 Mar 2018 | Holywood and Clandeboye | Green (NI) | Prof. John Barry | Rachel Woods[12] | Barry resigned.[13] | |
27 Mar 2018 | Holywood and Clandeboye | DUP | Jennifer Gilmour | Roberta Dunlop[14] | Gilmour moved to the Bangor West DEA. | |
20 Dec 2018 | Bangor West | Green (NI) | James Hunter | James Barry McKee[15] |
‡ Changes of affiliation
[edit]Date | Electoral Area | Name | Previous affiliation | New affiliation | Circumstance | ||
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6 Feb 2015 | Bangor Central | Noelle Robinson | Green (NI) | Independent | Resigned.[16] | ||
11 Dec 2015 | Bangor East and Donaghadee | Alan Chambers | Independent | UUP | Joined.[17] | ||
11 Apr 2016 | Holywood and Clandeboye | Daniel Allen | UUP | Independent | Resigned.[18] | ||
16 Aug 2016 | Holywood and Clandeboye | Daniel Allen | Independent | DUP | Joined.[19] |
Last update 26 March 2019.
Current composition: see Ards and North Down Borough Council
References
[edit]- ^ "Northern Ireland council results". BBC News. Retrieved 23 May 2014.
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- ^ "New Councillor - Ards and North Down Borough Council". www.eoni.org.uk. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 19 November 2017.
- ^ "Julie Flaherty & David Chambers join Ulster Unionist Local Government team". uup.org. Retrieved 19 November 2017.
- ^ "New Councillors". www.eoni.org.uk. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 19 November 2017.
- ^ "New Councillor". www.eoni.org.uk. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 19 November 2017.
- ^ "New Bangor Councillor for Alliance (The Alliance Party of Northern Ireland)". www.allianceparty.org. Retrieved 19 November 2017.
- ^ "New Councillor - Ards and North Down Borough Council". www.eoni.org.uk. Archived from the original on 3 August 2017. Retrieved 19 October 2018.
- ^ "The Electoral Office of Northern Ireland - EONI". 4 June 2018. Archived from the original on 4 June 2018. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
- ^ "A to Z of councillors". Ards and North Down Borough Council. 27 February 2018. Archived from the original on 27 February 2018. Retrieved 19 October 2018.
- ^ a b "A to Z of councillors". Ards and North Down Borough Council. 15 May 2018. Archived from the original on 15 May 2018. Retrieved 19 October 2018.
- ^ Barry, John (15 March 2018). "So today I formally stepped down from @ANDborough council. And brings to an end 7 years of being a councillor. Its been a great honour and privilege to serve the citizens of Bangor Central (2011-2014) and Holywood and Clandeboye (2014-2018). @GreenPartyNI". @CllrJohnBarry. Retrieved 18 March 2018.
- ^ "Cllr Stephen McIlveen on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved 19 October 2018.
- ^ "The Electoral Office of Northern Ireland - EONI". www.eoni.org.uk. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
- ^ "Green Party councillor quits over its stance on terrorist groups". www.newsletter.co.uk. Retrieved 18 February 2018.
- ^ Ferguson, Amanda (11 December 2015). "Veteran independent councillor Alan Chambers joins UUP". BelfastTelegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 20 September 2016.
- ^ Hello (11 April 2016). "UUP councillor quits party". Belfast Newsletter. Retrieved 20 September 2016.
- ^ "Former Ulster Unionist Allen joins the DUP". www.newsletter.co.uk. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
External links
[edit]- Election results North Down and Ards District Council